Chapter 291.2: Chapter 291.2 – Seoul (2) Part II

Chapter 291 . 2 – Seoul (2) Part II

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TTITH IS BACK

“Three rolls of cheese kimbap, please . ”

On his way back to the association, Park Min stopped by a kimbap restaurant and ordered cheese kimbap . There was no particular reason . He was just a little hungry, and kimbap had been his favorite dish in the Tutorial .

Park Min was from the first batch of Awakened . As soon as the Tutorial and monsters appeared in this world, he was summoned to the Tutorial’s first floor . Even now, the early stages of the Tutorial were the talk of the town .

At that time, there were various problems, but he clearly remembered the food problem . The only free meal offered in the Tutorial was beef jerky, and only on the first floor . From the moment the challengers cleared the first floor and went up to the second floor, they had to purchase all meals with points .

Park Min didn’t know what it was like now, but when he was in the Tutorial, he had to save more points to buy a potion . Most of the challengers had to get through with beef jerky or biscuits .

On rare occasions, such as his birthday, he collected presents from other challengers and bought Kimchi stew, the only luxury he could obtain .

Of course, Park Min was quite rich in the Tutorial . After all, he was a member of the Order of Vigilance . Although he had more points than others, Park Min did not invest lots of points into food .

Buying a roll of kimbap every time he cleared a stage was the only luxury he could have afforded . Kimbap was also the first food that Park Min searched for when he returned to Earth after clearing the Tutorial .

He didn’t know why either . He ate it every time he cleared a stage, so maybe his subconsciousness thought that he had to eat it, even after he’d cleared the Tutorial . It was like a reminder of his achievements .

Funnily enough, Park Min often bought and ate kimbap since then, and every time, he had an odd feeling . He had the impression that no matter how expensive the food he eats, he couldn’t quite taste it .

In those difficult times, he wasn’t aware that such food became his reward . He hadn’t even thought about it .

Park Min took the wrapped kimbap and asked, “If I’m not mistaken, I only ordered three . Am I wrong?”

There were more than five or six rolls of kimbap in the plastic bag . The lady who handed over the bag smiled and told him that she added more as a bonus . She had such a warm smile .

She didn’t even charge for the extra kimbap, so Park Min ended up returning to the association with free kimbap .

My uniform looks good . Park Min looked down at his costume to check .

In the past, Awakened were supposed to wear costumes that would be worn by Batman or Superman . As time passed, the regulations relaxed, and they didn’t have to wear them anymore . What Park Min was wearing right now was not a costume but a jumper reminiscent of a subway public service worker . But people still recognized him in those clothes, even though it was dull and unseemly .

Park Min felt good for the first time in a while . It wasn’t because he got free Kimbap . The moment he faced people with good intentions and kindness like the kimbap lady, his mood brightened .

When Park Min cleared the Tutorial and appeared at Seoul Station, he was treated like a hero . It felt amazing because he was the first Awakened in Korea .

Back then, it had been such a hectic day . He spent years like that .

In fact, he had spent more time in front of a camera and microphone rather than monsters . However, it wasn’t pointless . Through the interviews and broadcasts, Park Min reassured people and inspired them .

At that time, Park Min was a hero, but those glory days were over for him .

He used a private elevator and headed for the president’s office . After accepting the greetings from the people he encountered on the way to the office, he arrived at the office and opened a kimbap wrap .

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“Is that Kimbap?”

Park Min nodded . “Try it . It’s too much to eat alone . ”

“Okay then, if you insist . ”

The team leader, Lee Song-eun, nodded and reached out for the kimbap . But it seemed like he had to wait for a while to put kimbap in his mouth . His mouth had other things to do .

“With everything going on, the association will crumble apart, President . The foundation of this association is the Awakened, after all . It would be nice if this odd phenomenon were to end as soon as possible . ”

Lee Song-eun talked about the possibility of the association’s influence decreasing .

“If this situation, in which the Awakened are not returning, lasts for more than a few months, it will be fatal to the association . And if the Awakened never arrive at Earth, we will face the worst situation ever . ”

“I think differently . ” Park Min disagreed with Lee Song-eun’s opinion .

“This situation might bring favor to us . ”

“Pardon?”

Park Min had always thought about this . There were too many Awakened .

“The Awakened’s influence cannot be diminished easily unless the monsters in this world are gone instantly . No, even if they do, the status of the Awakened will remain unchanged . ”

It was rather the opposite . The status of the Awakened would soar if the monsters disappeared . The government would likely try to take the Awakened’s privileges by saying they were useless, but it wouldn’t happen .

The Awakened were already at the top of society . The Awakened who had worked under a company or government now owned the company and sat in government positions in each country and had extensive connections .

Only then, when Awakened showed up, the land value increased, and people began to gather . Because of them, the flow of money became smooth and people were guaranteed safety .

A powerful Awakened could even snatch the role of the state . If the monsters were gone, the Awakened’s position of the hero would ascend to the ruler .

Of course, it was a different matter whether the Awakened have the qualifications and abilities to do so . But the Awakened wouldn’t give a damn .

No one can stop them . They would do anything in their power to satisfy their greed . “The problem is not of the probability of the Awakened’s influence decreasing . ”

Instead, the other Awakened who were not part of the association were the problem . Korea’s Awakened were originally divided into two groups: the association and the government .

Both sides did not dominate the other side because of the extreme outflow of Awakened . But a few years ago, things changed .

When Kim Min-hyuk came out of the Tutorial, he established a guild: a guild that resembled one from an online game . It brought together the Korean Awakened that were scattered all over the world .

Since then, it has become the largest Awakened community in East Asia . In Korea, most of the A-class or higher Awakened from the Hard difficulty level were in Kim Min-hyuk’s guild .

In Park Min’s eyes, it was hard to figure out how Kim Min-hyuk had coaxed so many Awakened .

When Park Min exited the Tutorial, many hard-level challengers could not pass the 50th floor . Park Min knew little about the bond between Kim Min-hyuk and the hard difficulty level challengers . One thing was for sure, Kim Min-hyuk’s guild posed a threat to both the association and the government .

Even if all the Awakened members of the association and the government were put together, it could not match the guild’s size .

If the Tutorial was closed and the Awakened’s status increased just like how Park Min predicted, the credit would fall to the guild, not the association . And that was the problem .

“We need to create a bigger issue . I need to change how things are going . ”

“You already have something on your mind?” the team leader asked as she set her eyes on him . It was the team leader’s job to come up with such a plan . Park Min looked at the team leader, who was worried about being criticized as incompetent, and pointed to a place on the map .

Where he pointed to was near Pyongyang, North Korea, which had quickly fallen to ruin after the monsters’ invasion . They were no longer maintaining a country . It was more like a warlord’s area than a country .

The military units near the border were all that remained from North Korea . Beyond that, it collapsed from the invasion of monsters and was practically treated like a wasteland .

Pyongyang, which Park Min pointed out, used to be the capital of North Korea, but now it was just a wasteland occupied by monsters .

Pointing to it, Park Min questioned Lee Song-eun . “What if there were G-class monsters here?”

Seoul (2) Finished

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